Of course Nina should not have given up her job when she met Robert. And that they were still not married after ten years was also a mistake. But who would expect a wealthy man in the best years of his life to die without leaving a will? And that his son is an unscrupulous egoist? And so Nina, at the age of 49, plunges into a bottomless pit of poverty, loneliness and despair. Yet she has no time for self-pity. She needs money. And because she can't find anything else she works as a cleaning lady.

A year in the life of a woman who clears up after other people and in the process finds happiness.